Friday, January 23, 2009

Carol sent me this

Ad Coelum

At the muezzin's call for prayer,The kneeling faithful thronged the square,And on Pushkara's lofty heightThe dark priest chanted Brahma's might.Amid a monastery's weedsAnd old Franciscan told his beads;While to the synagogue there cameA Jew to praise Jehovah's name.The one great God looked down and smiledAnd counted each His loving child;For Turk and Brahmin, monk and JewHad reached Him through the gods they knew.

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I had to look up muezzin and Pushkara to understand the poem better. Barb and I had gotten out poetry books to look for Alexander Pope because there was a "quote of the day" by him. In the process, Barb found this poem in our old poetry books.. We thought it spoke as well today as in 1895. Then I looked up the author Harry Romaine and found out that he had written "fillers" for Munsey's Magazine for years. This was probably one of them.

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